This scene of Albania derives from Lear’s trip to the region in 1848. It illustrates the following Tennyson verse from “Eleänore,” published in 1832:

As thunder-clouds that, hung on high,
Roofed the world with doubt and fear,
Floating through an evening atmosphere,
Grow golden all about the sky;
In thee all passion becomes passionless,
Touched by thy spirit’s mellowness,
Losing his fire and active might
In silent meditation,
Falling into a still delight,
And luxury of contemplation.